Friday, February 20, 2015

Simon Says Stamp Hop To It! Release

Hi everyone!

Today is reveal day for the newest release by Simon Says Stamp: Hop To It! This is such a great release that has me ready for Spring! There are products celebrating Easter, the outdoors in Spring, lots of fun girl and animal images that are great for colouring or paper piecing, and some wonder sentiments with great fonts!

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Simon was sweet enough to send me a few goodies to play with and here are a couple of cards I've created so far:

For this first card I die cut the large stitched rectangle from Simon's Bundle of Stitches die set using Ranger Watercolor Paper and white heat embossed this fabulous new sentiment from Simon's Hand Lettered Encouragement stamp set. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this stamp set! So many wonderful, encouraging sentiments and the font is gorgeous! I then painted a rainbow on it with my newly purchased set of 36 Zig Kuretake Gansai Watercolors. I'm still learning how to play with these paints and love how vibrant they are! If I were to make this card again the only thing I would do differently would be to paint first, let it dry and than heat emboss the sentiment. It was a little tricky trying to remove the paint from the sentiment without messing up the painted background and still some of the color wouldn't come off the embossing.